Research Catalog

Title

The letters of D'Arcy Cresswell. Selected by Helen Shaw.

Author

Cresswell, Walter D'Arcy, 1896-1960

Publication

Christchurch [N.Z.] University of Canterbury, 1971.

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Additional Authors

• Shaw, Helen, 1913-1985.
• Shaw, Helen, 1913-1985
• University of Canterbury

Description

256 p. illus.; 23 cm.

Summary

The poet D'Arcy Cresswell was born in Christchurch and made several voyages between New Zealand and England, the first as a youth of 17, the last in 1950. Although Cresswell's letters reflect aspects of New Zealand literature in the making, much of his life was spent in London, where from 1939 he lived in a cottage at Abercorn Place in St John's Wood. Cresswell's life, touched by fame, was one of unswerving dedication to poetry. A poet's hopes, disappointments, determination to continue, often in the face of extreme loneliness, and over all a highly individual manner of thinking, may be found in this collection of D'Arcy Cresswell's letters.

Series Statement

University of Canterbury publications ; no. 14

Uniform Title

University of Canterbury publications ; no. 14.

Subject

• Cresswell, Walter D'Arcy, 1896-1960
• Cresswell, Walter D'Arcy, 1896-1960 > Correspondence
• Poets, New Zealand > 20th century > Correspondence

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

LCCN

^^^72177920^//r892

OCLC

• 278710
• SCSB-10893382

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library